John Izzi
Department Chair
Ph.D.; Maitrise; Licence es Lettres; University of Paris-Sorbonne
B.A. Fordham
jizzi@smcvt.edu
Areas of specialization in 19th and 20th Century Continental Philosophy (Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Kierkegaard); Recent French Philosphy(Levinas, Derrida); Neoplatonism (Plotinus, Meister Eckhart). Joined St. Michael's College Faculty in 1985.
Currently researching absence and manifestation in recent French thought and Neoplatonism.
Recent Publications: "Proximity in Distance: Levinas and Plotinus," International Philosophical Quarterly, March, 1998. and "The Place of Doubt in Kierkegaard," in Analecta Husserlianna: The Passion for Place, ed. A.N. Tymienieka, The Netherlands, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
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Ronald Begley
Professor (Classics and Philosophy)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Ph.D.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, M.A.
Haverford College, B.A.
rbegley@smcvt.edu
Specializes in Ancient Philosophy, the scholastic-humanist debate, Pascal, Newman, and Kierkegaard.
Prof. Begley is currently collaborating with Daniel Sheerin (University of Notre Dame) on volume seventy-nine of the COLLECTED WORKS OF ERASMUS, a translation and annotation of two apologiae of Erasmus against the Carthusian monk and Paris theologian, Pierre Cousturier.
Recent Publications:
'Metaphor in the APOLOGIA and Newman's Conversion' in Ian Ker ed., NEWMAN AND CONVERSION
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Peter Tumulty
Professor
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
ptumulty@smcvt.edu
Areas of Competency: Ethics, American Philosophy, Wittgenstein, and the 17th-18th Century Philosophy. (Interest in Social Philosophy and Newman/religious humanism.) Joined St. Michael's College Faculty in 1974.
Currently researching the various types of preconditions for cognitively significant judgments, especially as they bear upon the formation of the young in a progressively secular and commercial society with disorienting consequences for ever more vulnerable individuals and communities.
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Assistant Professors:
Alicia Jaramillo
R. Michael Olson
rolson@smcvt.edu
Laura Ostaric